Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College/First Year English Composition 1001 (Fall Semester 2023)

English Composition 1001 is a writing-centered, inquiry learning course that emphasizes the careful reading, analytical thinking, and persuasive strategies inherent in researching and writing within an academic community. Students learn that rhetorical knowledge is the basis of composing while learning to write with purpose, audience, context, and conventions in mind. Students develop rigorous academic research practices:  how to locate and evaluate primary and secondary sources relevant to their line of inquiry and position their own ideas in conversation with public writing. Students also engage in regular self-reflection: articulating what they know, what they can do, and how to apply their knowledge and skills in various contexts.

Week 1
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

Begin a blog about your experiences. We will use discussion questions to frame your entries, and reflect on the research and writing process. We will create at least one blog entry each week during the Wikipedia assignment in your Google Sites eportfolio site. We will title this page &quot;Wikipedia Process Blog&quot;.

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account. You will submit your login credentials through the Wikipedia Credentials assignment in our Canvas course. Here is a video that shows how to make your Wikipedia Account.

Week 4
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 6,  Article finder: https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/article_finder

Biographies

Ecology

Environmental Sciences

LGBT+ Studies

Medicine

Political Science

Psychology

Science Communication

Sociology

Week 5
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Layout Review Headings and Subheadings here. ]

Week 6
Guiding framework

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 7
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Week 8
Now's the time to revisit your text and refine your work. You may do more research and find missing information; rewrite the lead section to represent all major points; or reorganize the text to communicate the information better. This is the time that you will also add images and other media such as an infographic.

Week 9
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 10
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards.

You will also get feedback on your image additions or infographic that supports your contribution to the page.

Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 11
It's the final week to develop your article.


 * Read Editing Wikipedia page 15 to review a final checklist before completing your assignment.
 * Work in your group to discuss the checklist to make sure the assignment meets all the items of the checklist.
 * Don't forget that you can ask for help from your instructor or the Wikipedia Expert at any time!

Week 12
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.

Wikipedia asks you to write in a neutral tone in your entry. Choose a  gap in the knowledge, conflict, or new ideas in the existing conversation about your topic that changed how you think about the topic. Identify a current social or professional problem that this idea highlights for you. Write a paper using the information and sources from your Wikipedia article to advance an action you believe you can take or which you would recommend that members of your profession should take to address the problem that you have identified. Use your Wikipedia sources to support your solution. Explain the stakeholders that will benefit from your solution.

The draft is due for instructor feedback in our Canvas course by midnight November 9.

Week 14
In this piece of writing, you will compare the similarities and differences in content, tone, audience, purpose, structure, and effect of your Original Analyticak Paper and your Wikipedia Project.

Tuesday, Nov 28: Final Course Evaluation Outline

Thursday, Nov 30: Final ePortfolio Review and Submission

In this essay, Analyze the rhetorical situation of the Wikipedia page by examining the audience, purpose, and context of your work. Explain how you have c omposed multiple genres for the variety of audiences and purposes using Wikipedia, using sources as a foundation for your contributions. Narrate the composing processes Wikipedia has required and the conventions you needed to observe to create the page. Discuss how you used inquiry-based research practices to identify potential gaps in the page you chose to contribute to, conflicts in perspectives you identified, or new ideas in the existing conversation about the topic to which you have contributed. Present how you l ocated, evaluated, and synthesized the source material you found to reflect a range of perspectives on the page. Finally, a rticulate what you learned about reading, research, and writing processes through this work and how you can apply this knowledge in your other classes and in your profession.